Time for Pingdom Customers to Consider an Exit Strategy of Their Own
Well, another day, another acquisition in the tech world. This time, it's SolarWinds acquiring Pingdom, presumably to participate in the fast growing, cloud-based application performance management market.
But history has proved that great product strategies can't be acquired and acquired product strategies can't be susta...
Make the Most of Your Systems with These Windows Server 2012 R2 Features
When it comes to managing your servers, keeping your software up to date is vital for efficient operations of your system. Although always purchasing the latest copies of software isn’t practical for every business, keeping tabs on the latest industry trends is vital to ensuring that you always have a handle on the trends within your in...
Get your network ready for the FIFA 2014 World Cup
As world cup excitement reaches fever pitch, millions of footie fans will be taking to their office computer to stream football live. But while you may be ready for the fun to begin, you may find yourself screaming at your computer rather than cheering on your favourite team if your network isn’t up to the job. Your company may also be ...
IT Best Practices- Troubleshooting issues in the cloud
Although Amazon is known for its reliability and advanced features, problems and outages can still occur. In a nutshell, Amazon EC2 instances act as virtual servers to run your applications (you can select multiple combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity), so they are the fundamental building blocks for your cl...
IT Best Practices: Troubleshooting problems with SQL queries
When Web applications slow down, you are the first line of defense dealing with user complaints. Did you know that Web performance issues and bottlenecks are traced back to database issues in over 50% of the cases? Unfortunately, when you are trying to troubleshoot problem with your back-end databases, developers will point the fing...
Gain competitive advantage with faster websites using better image compression
With Wimbledon fast~approaching,~it’s time to~start thinking~about how we could improve our own game. And there’s no better place to start than by looking at image formatting and compression techniques which can have a dramatic effect on website performance.~ It can also help boost sales.
Reducing fi...
IT Best Practices: Understanding Web Performance Waterfall charts
Have you seen an increase of user escalations and complaints about slow Web apps and poor performance? Are you getting intermittent Site24x7 alerts that you can’t troubleshoot? It may be time to arm yourself with a Web performance waterfall chart, and visit your friendly Web development counterparts to have some informed discu...
Top 5 certifications for developers
A quick glance at the Wikipedia list of programming languages~reveals a startling~number. Fortunately, there are only a handful most developers want or need to learn. And with countless certification programmes available to help developers hone their skills, choosing the right one can be just as mind-blowingly challenging as learnin...
Should you build native or HTML5 mobile apps?
Mobile is exploding. Just a couple of months ago we saw that for the first time ever, mobile devices accounted for 55% of all Internet traffic in USA in Jan 2014 (Source- comScore), surpassing desktop usage. Moreover, mobile ecommerce is expected to be double that of desktop ecommerce by 2018 (Source: Goldman Sachs&#x...